UP Anti Terror Squad will take suspects of Bijnaur terror outfit on remand to interrogate them further to extract more information. The decision came after the arrested miscreants disclosed sensitive information to the team. The ATS will send the laptops/mobiles recovered from them for forensic analysis.
Earlier, the team sent the terror suspects to lucknow jail in judicial custody after a thorough interrogation. Those sent to jail were identified as Ehtsam-ul haq of West Champaran of Bihar, Mohammed Faizan of Nagina in Bijnaur, Muzammil aka Ghazi Baba of Unnao and Mohammed Nazim aka Umar of Nahtar police station of Bijnaur. Both Muzammil and Mohammed Nazim were camping in Jalandhar and Mumbai respectively.
It surfaced that all the suspects, though belonging to different region/state, were linked with one another through social media and had orientation to terror related activities. They were involved in the terror plan in Haridwar, Shia Imambara, Naugaon of Bijnaur, threat to Tariq Fateh, attack on a policeman in Mumbai, setting fire a sugar mill in Narkatiyaganj of Bihar and targeting shops selling gas cylinder and batteries in the area where Hindu population is high.